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/ 10 January 2003
South Africa’s ministry of justice has agreed to a request from Israel’s attorney general to help investigate a loan from a local businessman to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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/ 10 January 2003
KwaZulu-Natal legislators, who lost their seats when they defected to the African National Congress last year, said on Friday they supported this week’s floor-crossing agreement despite the fact that they were effectively sacrificed for the deal.
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/ 10 January 2003
North Korea today withdrew from the global nuclear arms control treaty, in a move certain to heighten tension over its nuclear development efforts.
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/ 10 January 2003
The teenager accused of taking part in 21 sniper shootings around Washington and in other parts of the United States last year may have been handed over to his co-accused by his mother as security for money she owed. The suggestion comes from an investigation by the Antiguan government.
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/ 10 January 2003
A decorated former Rhodesian soldier is at the centre of an internationally backed plan to coax Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to meet with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, officials said this week. The plan also involves South Africa and Britain.
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/ 10 January 2003
The carnage on South Africa’s roads was described on news bulletins over the holiday season by cold voices reading off ciphers. These statistics seemed clinical, saying little about the victims making up the numbers.
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/ 10 January 2003
The five members of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature who defected to the African National Congress are likely to be accommodated in various positions by the end of next month. With the expunging of the retrospective provision in the draft defection legislation, the five cannot be reinstated in their former positions.
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/ 10 January 2003
US direct investment flows to Sub-Saharan Africa totaled $798-million in 2001, or less than 0,1% of total US direct investment abroad, a recently compiled report shows.
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/ 10 January 2003
The African National Congress has taken aim at AngloGold CEO Bobby Godsell’s involvement as a ”facilitator” at a top-secret meeting of Inkatha Freedom Party and Democratic Alliance leaders last month, criticising it as ”surprising” and ”unwise”.
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/ 10 January 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions said it was concerned that the substantial revaluation of the rand has not led to an equal drop in the price of maize.